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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Kathleen Parker, "The character assassination of Hillary Clinton": Get Real, Kathleen

"I didn't have sex with that woman." Yeah, right. "I remember landing under sniper fire." Almost as honest as Hillary's marriage to Bill. Not that I have anything against the Clintons. Politicians lie. That's what they get paid to do.

"Head trauma can cause blood in a venous sinus to clot, but it almost always has to be severe enough to cause a skull fracture, said Aaron S. Dumont, director of cerebrovascular surgery at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.

'It’s probably a coincidence,' he said of Clinton’s fainting spell and the clot. He noted, however, that her history of a blood clot in the leg may indicate a predisposition to clotting."

Parker continues:

"Clinton, who fainted as a result of dehydration after a bout of flu, hit her head and suffered a concussion, after which a blood clot was discovered. She had to be hospitalized while blood-thinning medications were administered and monitored."

Again, full stop! Can we be so certain that Clinton fainted as a result of dehydration after a bout of the flu? Get real. There is a greater likelihood that she fainted from the preexisting blood clot.

"But anticoagulation is never given to persons with clots around the brain. They are either watched without intervention or surgically evacuated."

A "routine" MRI following dehydration? Please . . . something other than dehydration was obviously suspected.

Yes, nothing quite makes sense here. My guess is that doctors happened upon the subdural hematoma when searching for the reason that she fainted, and this tendency toward clotting could rule out Hillary's chances of running for president in 2016, not that this would trouble Hillary or Bill in the least.